Boston Tea Party

The famed act of rebellion known as the Boston Tea party was a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. The tea was rejected in New York, Charleston and Philadelphia, while in Boston the merchants did not give into the pressure of the Patriots. On December 1773 Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbour and threw 342 tea chests of tea overbpard.